Crosby Scholars Phuto
Scholars Meredith Pendry, Lavadia Spaugh and El Roberts.
Crosby Scholars earn scholarships
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The Crosby Scholars programs has pre
sented scholarship awards to three local stu
dents
Meredith Pendry of North Forsyth High
School earned the Paul Fulton Carolina
Medal, which is awarded annually to a
Crosby Scholar who has been admitted to
the University of North Carolina-Chapel
Hill and who has shown an active and exem
plary commitment to service to others. The
Fulton Scholar is awarded a one-time S 1 ,500
college scholarship from Crosby Scholars.
Pendry is a member of the Key Club and
has participated in a number of service proj
ects. She is a member of the National Honor
Society, the Drama Club and editor-in-chief
of her school's yearbook. She is the daugh
ter of Cathy Pendrv .
I.avadia Spaugh of Reynolds Htgh
School earned the SI. 200 Mommie J.
Scholarship, which was established as a tnb
utv.' to the special friendship of Kathryn
Crosby and Jewel l-'ulton. To earn the award.
Spaugh. who will attend UNC Asheville.
wrote about her friendship with her god
mother. Kay. She is the daughter of Diane
Spaugh.
fit Roberts of East Forsyth High School
has earned the $ 1 .2(H) Les and Evelyn Riley
Scholarship. Candidates for the scholarship
express a significant experience in their
lives and its impact on them. Roberts
received the Classics Scholarship of the
Oxbridge Academic Summer Program. She
studied Latin poetry and language and
drama with a focus on Shakespeare in
England for a month. Roberts, the daughter
of Lisa Roberts, will enroll at Georgetown
University .
The Crosby Scholars program works to
assist public middle and high school stu
dents in Forsyth County in preparing them
selves for successful college enrollment.
Blessings Foundation gives out
more than $35,000 in grant funds
SPVCIAI rO THl ( MROMCI.I
The Blessings Project
Foundation granted more
than $35,000 during its
spring 2010 grant cycle and
through its emergency relief
program. which benefited
victims of the earthquake in
Haiti and local homeless
people.
Grant recipients included
the Bethesda Center; the
Coalition to Unchain Dogs:
Glenda Wharton (for her
film "The Zo. Keeper of the
Mountains Foundation'*):
the \a\nya Project:
Sustainable Mamance: Well
Of Mercy, and Winston
Salem Youth Chorus
The Blessings Project
Foundation was established
in 2006 by local philanthro
(ilenda Wharton
pist Beverl\ Johnston, who
serves as the <v ?(??/ation's
president and chairman ot
the board of directors.
Through a biannual grants
process. the Blessings
Project Foundation provides
funding for grassroots non
profit organizations that
share in Blessings' commit
ment to human and animal
rights, and preservation of
the environment and the
arts. Foundation offices are
located at S23 Reynolda
Road and at 541 -A Trade St.
Since 2006. the
Foundation awarded grants
to organizations globally
and locally that share in the
belief that that spiritual and
physical health is insepara
ble from the health of the
planet.
I or move information ,
toll 3^6-724-9393, email
amy? blessingsfoundation .<>
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sprojecl.org.
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What's Happening NOW in City Government
City Council weighing 2010-201 1 budget
The city budget would drop $10.4 million to $362.4
million and the city property-tax rate would increase
three-fourths of a penny to 47.50 cents per $100 of
value under the 2010-201 1 budget City Manager Lee
Garrity has proposed to the City Council.
Overall the proposed budget allocates $295.5 million
for operations and debt service, and $66.9 million for
capital improvements.
The City Council's Finance Committee is holding
workshops this month to review the budget. The
council is scheduled to hold a public hearing and vote
on the budget on June 2 1 . By state law, the council
must adopt a budget for 2010-201 1 by June 30. The
budget would take effect July 1.
In his budget message to the City Council, Garrity noted
that the proposed budget spreads the impact of three
years of successively less revenue due to the economic
recession. "The proposal requires city employees to do
more with fewer people, smaller budgets, older
WHERE THE MONEY
COMES FROM
Property Tax
Sates tax
Licenses ft permits
Intergovernmental nvmm
Investment income
Charges for services
Bond proceeds
Civil penalties, other
$96.9 million
25.7 million
9.6 million
1.5 miHion
113.5 million
56 J miHIon
17.0 million
Tout; SJ6X?miftiofi
WHERE THE MONEY GOES
environmental health
Public safety
Transportation
Debt service
Recreation A culture
General jjoywnn tent
Human resources
Other
>154.9 MMon
BJ.5 million
33.0 million
25.9 million
Total: $362.4 mUtton
Hit | All on the budget. Phone in comments about the
H [ I U II budget to the Citizen Feedback Line,
A| 734-1 400, or submit comments through the
I R f?rm on city Web site.
equipment, and without any increase in compensation," he said. "It also affects our citizens with some
changes in services and modest increases in some fees and the property-tax rate."
Specific budget provisions include:
? Eliminating 37 city jobs that are currently vacant, saving $1.3 million. Three other vacancies in
construction-related programs would be frozen and unfunded to save $195,000 more.
? Eliminating all employee pay increases, saving $1.2 million.
? Reducing operating accounts that will not substantially affect services to the public, saving $900,000.
? Deferring equipment replacements, saving $690,000.
? Implementing curbside garbage collection on Oct. 1 for all able-bodied residents. Those who are
physically unable to bring their garbage cart to the curb could elect to continue backyard service. The net
first-year savings, after providing roll-out carts to city residents, would be $ 1 76,000.
PARTICIPATE in the budget process:
? Copies of the imposed budget are available for
review at public libraries and City Hall. 101 N Main
St.. Suite 30: and online at www.CityofWS oig
I* The City Council s Finance Committee will hold
workshops on the budget at 4 p.m June 3 and 1 0
and at 5 p.m. June 14 in the Council Committee
Room Room 239 onthesecondtloorofCityH.il!
? The Finance Committee will hold a public hearing
on the budget at 7 p.m. June 8 in the Council
Chamber Room 230. on the second floor of Cilv
Hall.
? The Public Safety Committee will review the
budgets for the Pr In. e Fire and F mergt iKy Managt
ment departments on June 14 at 7 p.m in the
Council Committee Room.
!? The C it >? ( outk ii will hold .i pubik hearing on the
budget at 7 p m lune 2 1 in the C nunc il < hambn
iH'tou* voting on the budget
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? Raising $900,000 by increasing
various fees and fines, including the
yard-waste collection fee, code
enforcement fines, some recreation
fees, on-street parking fines, and
off-street parking rates
? Increasing the property-tax rate to
47.5 cents from 46.75 cents per $100,
raising $1.56 million. The owner of a
home valued at $130,000 would pay
$9.75, or 1 .6% more, in property
taxes. The city last raised property
taxes in June 2007.
? Reducing donations to non-profit
community agencies to be consistent
with the budgetary savings required
of city departments.
FUN PRESERVER
This summer, all city pools will
require patrons under 48 inches
to wear a pool-provided life jacket
unless they pass a swim test.
Parkland, Kimberley Park and Bolton
oools are now open. Polo opens
\lune 5. All others open June 1 1 .
Free swim
fessonsf
All city pools are
offering free swim
lossons this summer,
thanks to tlio American
Rod Cross anil tlio
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